Cane car



Apr. 24, 1923. 1,452,486

L. ALMQUIST CANE CAR Filed July 8, 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Apr. 24, 1923.

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LEOIPGLD ALMQUIST, OF NEW YORK, It. Y., AS$IGNOR T0 AMERICAN GAB, ANDFOUNDRY COMPANY, OF NEW YORK,;. Y., A CORPORATION Q1 NEW JEEBEY.

CANE CAR.

' Application filed July 8, 1921. Serial No. 483,228.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEOPOLD ALM UIs'r, residing at New York, county ofNew York, State of New York, and being a citizen of the United States,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Cane Car, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and

exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and to use the same, reference be ng had tothe accompanying drawings, WhICh illustrate the preferred form of theinvention. though it is to be understood that the invention is notlimited to the exact deta ls of construction shown and described, as itis obvious that various modifications thereof within the scope of theclaims will occur to persons skilled in the art.

In said drawings:

Fig. 1 is aside elevational view of one corner of a cane. car equippedwith my 111- vention;

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view, the section being taken on line2-2 of F1g. 3;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary side elevational view, parts beingshown in sec-- tion, the section belng taken on llne 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view, the section being taken on line 44 of Fig.looking downwardly in the direction indicated by the arrow;

Fig. 5 is an isometric perspective view of the locking latch hereinreferred to, the latch being the one particularly illustrated in Figures2 and 7; I Fig. 6 is a similar view of a cam herelnafter referred towhich is adapted to be used with a square shaft and is of the typeillustrated in Figures 2 and 3;

Fig. 7 is a view substantially on the line on which Fig. 2 is takenshowing a slight modification in that the actuating cam of this figureis adapted to interlock with and be actuated by a round shaft, incontradistinction to the square shaft of Figures 2 and 3, and interlockwith such round shaft as hereinafter described;

Fig. 8 illustrates in substantially the same section a modified form oflocking means in which the slot of the locking latch is of a differentcontour for the purpose hereinafter more fully developed, this Fig. 8being taken on the section line 88 of Fig. 9;

Fig. 9 is another View of the device shown Fig. 3.

he object of the invention is to provide simple, convenlent, readilyaccessible and renewable locking latches adapted to cooperate with theoutwardly swinging side gates of cane cars and similar railway rollmgstock in which cars there is provided an underframe with a side wallmade up of gates suitably supported at each side above said underframeand adapted to swing outwardly away from said underframe to permitdumping the load carried in the car at the side of the track whendesired.

The structure is designed particularly for use in connection with canecars in which the cane is loaded upon a suitable floor carr ed by theunderframe and is held in position by 'means of outwardl swinging gateswlnch should be readily re easable from the ends of the car so as topermit the load to fall outwardly and away from the tracks upon whichthe cars travel.

Var1ous devices have been employed for this purpose, some of which haveoints of advantage, but there are inherent isadvantages in such deviceswhich have been overcome by means of the present invention in WhlCh theparts are so coordinated that they are easlly and quickly assembled anddisassembled, and in the event of breakages, one or more of the partsmay be renewed without taking down the whole assembly as has heretoforebeen found necessary with other devices employed for the purpose.

Referring specifically to the parts illus trated in the accompanyingdrawings, A ndicates one of the side sills or underframmg members of acar, B a floor carried by the car underframe, C, D and connecting web Done of the corner posts, E a side plate supported above the underframe.F indicates generally the side gate, which as will be observed is of theswinging type and is carried upon pint-les, G, which extendlongitudinally of and above the side sill. The gate. structure extendslongitudinally of the car, and when in closed position is in substantialparallelism with and closes against the side sill A. I

Any convenient latch supporting means may be provided, within the scopeof the invention, but referring to the specific means employed 20-20indicate brackets which are preferably rigidly secured to the side sillsand it is to be observed that one of said brackets 20', instead of beingriveted thereto, is preferably bolted in position so as to be removablewhen desired for the urpose hereinafter indicated. Exten ing through andreferably supported by said brackets which are disposed at convenientintervals along the length of said side sill, is an operating shaft 21an end of which is bent upwardly at 22 as shown in Fig. 1 and in thedisclosure of the drawings a short angularly disposed slide 23 issecured to the member D and upon the member 23 a ring 24 is carried,which ring is adapted toslip over the angular upward extension of theshaft 21 to secure the parts hereinafter referred toin their lockedposit-ion.

The brackets 20-20' are provided with outwardly extending flanges 26which are perforated for the passage of the shaft 21 and are alsoperforated to receive locking and guiding pins 27 the function of whichwill-be hereinafter described. Said pins 27 are preferably held inposition by means of cotters 28 projected through openings in said pinsso as to prevent accidental displacement of such pins in service.

Preferably removably mounted upon the locking shaft 21 are cams 30 whichcams in Figures 2 and 3 are shown provided with hubs 31 adapted to fitthe non-circular shaft 21 and ride in the openings provided therefor inthe flanges 26 of the brackets 20-20.

Mounted upon the cams 30 are latch members 35, which latch members areslotted at 36 and in the slots 36 the pins 27 are positioned, as bestshown in Figures 2, 3 and 7 of the drawings.

Where a circular shaft is employed I prefer to use the form of camillustrated in Figures 7 and 10, which cam 30, is provided with alocking teat 40 which is adapted to engage with a correspondingly shapedrecess in the circular shaft 21 so as to ensure actuation of said cam30' upon rotation of the shaft 21'.

An advantage in the present invention consists in the ease of assemblingthe latch members upon the actuating shaft and this is accomplishedwhile the brackets or supports 20' are removed and as follows:

Assuming that the actuating shaft is in position, the cams 30 or 30 areslipped over the shaft, after which the latch members 35 are slippedover the cams bymovement longitudinally of the actuating shaft. afterwhich the bracket or support portion 20' is moved to its operativeposition where it is removably secured to the underframe by bolts orotherwise with the pins 27 extending naeaase disassembling the latchmembers, whichmay be removed for renewal in the event of breakage ordistortion due to service, or

if for any reason the actuating shaft may become jammed and inoperative,as for example, in the event of the shaft becoming distorted.

In operation the devices shown in detail in Figures 2, 3 and 7 pursuethe same relative path as illustrated by full and dotted lines in Fig.2, in which figure it will be noted that the latch35 is in its uppermostor looking position and the cam 30 is in a position in which the majorportion thereof is positioned above the shaft 21. When said shaft 21 isrotated contraclockwise the cam 30 will be rotated and carrieddownwardly to the position shown in dotted lines Fig. 2 in whichposition the latch member 35 is retracted downwardly and outwardly tothe position shown in dotted lines in said figure, thereby unlocking thegate and permitting it to move outwardly to dump the load in the car.

It may be desirable to give a difierent movement to the latch 35 inwhich said latch will in closing be caused to travel, first in anupwardly and then in an inward direction, in which case the modificationshown in Figures 8 and 9 may be used, in which modification the slot 36instead of being relatively straight as shown in Figures 2 and 7 will besomewhat angular as shown in Fig. 8.

It is unimportant whether the uare or round shaft is employed or whethert e cams 30 or 30' are secured upon said shaft as shown and described,or whether the shaft is of any other section and the cams are se curedthereto or thereon by any other suitable means so as to cause rotationof the cams with rotation of the shaft as all are obviously within thepresent invention, which contemplates the employment of preferably astraight shaft portion extending parallel with and longitudinally of theunderframe and carrying removable latches adapted preferably to contactwith the outer face of a gate or side wall member, which is or may beimpinged by the latches and thereby actuated or locked in closedposition to retain the load in position within the car, and it is alsounimportant whether thegates are of the skeleton type illustrated in thedrawings or otherwise as may be desired.

What I claim is:

1. In a railway car, a side sill, a gate movable outwardly at its lowerportion away said sill, a cam mounted in said brackets, a shaft adaptedto operate said cam, a locking member for said gate operated by said camand a guide for said locking member mounted in said brackets.

2. In a railway car, a side sill, a gate movable outwardly at its lowerportion away from said sill, separable brackets carried by said sill, acam mounted in said brackets, a shaft to operate said cam anda lockingmember for said gate held in operative position on said cam by saidbrackets.

3. In a railway car, a side sill, a gate movable outwardly at its lowerportion awayfrom said side sill, separable brackets carried by saidsill, a cam mounted in said brackets, a shaft to operate said cam, alooking member for said gate held in operative position on said cam bysaid brackets and 00- operating guiding means on said brackets and saidlocking member to guide said locking member upwardly and then inwardlyinto engagement with said gate.

4. In a railway car, a side sill, a gate movable outwardly at its lowerportion away from said sill, a gate locking device carried by said sillcomprising a shaft, a cam rotatable only with said shaft, a latchmounted on said cam so as to be actuated thereby, a

bracket holding said cam and latch in 00- operative relation and a guideon the bracket adapted to guide the latch into contact with an outerportion of said gate.

5. In a railway car, a' gate, separable brackets carried by said car, anoperating shaft, a cam operated by said shaft and a gate locking memberoperated by said cam, said brackets holding said cam in engagement withsaid shaft and said gate locking member.

6. In a railway car, a gate, separable brackets carried by said car, acam rotatably mounted in said brackets, means to operate said cam and alocking member for said gate held in position on said cam by saidbrackets.

7. In a railway car, a side sill, a gate, separable brackets carried bysaid sill, an operating shaft, a slotted cam engaging said shaft sandrotatably mounted in said brackets and a locking member for said gateope-rated by. said cam, said brackets holding said cam in operativeengagement with said shaft and said locking member.

8. In a railway car, a frame, a gate, separable brackets carried by saidframe, an operating shaft, a cam slotted to receive said shaft, alocking member for said gate slotted to receive said shaft and having anopening to receive said cam, said cam and door operating member beingheld in operative relation by said brackets.

9. In a railway car, a gate, separable brackets carried by said car, acam rotatably mounted in said brackets, a shaft to operate said cam, alocking member for said gate, said shaft, cam and locking member beingheld in operative relation by Said brackets, and guide means for saidlocking member carried by said brackets.

In witness whereof I have have hereunto set my hand in the presence oftwo witnesses.

LEOPOLD ALMQUIST. Witnesses:

JOHN B. D. THOMPSON, A. KASSLER.

